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A rapper getting a brand new tattoo isn’t often large information, until you’re Lil Child. The Atlanta entice star has stated in varied previous interviews that he would by no means get everlasting ink on his physique, so when he was noticed with what look like sizeable tattoos on each of his thighs in an Instagram submit, it triggered loads of buzz on social media.
On Monday (July 14), Lil Child posted a handful of pictures on his official Instagram with the caption, “Again in that mode.” The pictures included a number of pictures of him in shorts that exposed the phrases “’90s” and “Child” tattooed on his proper and left leg, respectively. There’s additionally a big “CBFW” tattoo operating down the aspect of his decrease left leg, which he confirmed off in an Instagram submit on July 4.
Earlier in his profession, Lil Child was adamant that he wouldn’t get any ink on his physique as a result of he didn’t wish to be perceived as a “thug” when in sure rooms. In a 2020 New York Instances interview, he stated, “I by no means noticed me being a rapper. A giant-dog dope boy, that’s it. Not even only a dope boy. That’s why I ain’t received no tattoos, as a result of I all the time knew I used to be going to run my cash up, and I used to be going to must go sit in entrance of some folks to do one thing with my cash. And I didn’t need them to have a look at me like a dope boy. I needed to preserve my look straight.”
Truthful sufficient. So again in 2023, the “Drip Too Exhausting” rapper triggered a relative stir when he appeared with some tattoos on his arms. Nonetheless, these turned out to be phony.
“I really was in the course of capturing a music video and I had an vital assembly to go to,” Lil Child advised Enterprise Insider again in 2023. “These pretend tattoos do not wash off simply, and I simply went to the assembly and actually did not even understand they had been nonetheless there.”
This previous Might, eagle-eyed followers observed what allegedly seems to be like a small tattoo behind Lil Child’s proper ear. Now, the obvious tattoos posted earlier this week are not possible to overlook, and to date, the Atlanta rapper has not denied their existence.
With 4 solo albums below his belt, and the worldwide leg of his WHAM tour kicking off in September, Lil Child can get all of the ink he needs with no concern of it affecting his cash, no matter judgement.